The Queen of the Seas. Three vols. By C. F.
Armstrong. (T. C. Newby.)—A novel full of stirring incidents by sea and land, well and sensibly told, though we do not pretend to understand exactly how they are brought to pass. At times the hero is spoken of as next heir to Lord Dunskelling, at times as claiming by title paramount. Sometimes we hear of a former lord who "by an iniquitous will throws the title and estates into the possession of the younger branch," but titles are not the subjects of bequest. And the daughter of Lord Dunskelling, whose name before his accession to the title was Gordon, is called Lady Dora Dunskelling. From these incidents we conclude that the writers' ideas about rank are misty. Real novel-readers, however, do not trouble them- selves much with this sort of difficulty, and provided that there is plenty of scheming, and fighting, and that virtue is in the end triumphant, will accept its possibility as indisputable. Such readers will suit Mr. Arm- strong, and The Queen of the Seas will suit them.
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